Category: Motivation

  • 8-Week Health and Weight Loss Challenge

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    How are you doing on your New Year’s Resolutions to get healthy and fit? Did you know that 24% of people making New Year’s resolutions fail at their resolutions? If you have been struggling to succeed at your New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and get healthy in the new year, you have come to… Read more

  • Virtue Wednesday: Simplicity

    As Americans we are plagued by unrelenting consumerism and restrained by the economy. Some days it seems that we need to return to a simpler time by trading in our “possession obsession” for our sanity. Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was magnanimity This week’s virtue… Read more

  • Motivational Music Monday: Rapper’s Delight

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    Here is a classic song to get you moving this Monday. I have always loved this song since my mom (who had a lot more soul than anyone I’ve ever known) pulled out the vinyl record back in 1982. My siblings and I would dance around the room to the LONG version of this wonderful… Read more

  • Virtue Wednesday: Magnanimity

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    Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was perseverance. This week’s virtue is magnanimity. Magnanimity is the virtue of having greatness of mind and spirit. It typically includes a refusal of pettiness, brave, and noble. Read more

  • Motivational Music Monday

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    Happy Monday! Sometimes you just have to dance around the room to get the week moving. What are you looking forward to this week? Read more

  • Motivational Music Monday: The Workout Playlist

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    The new year means making new resolutions to get healthy. For Christmas my husband purchased a gym membership for me and I love it. We own a high quality elliptical machine but there is just something about working out in the company of others with state of the art equipment. Read more

  • Virtue Wednesday: Perseverance

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    Happy New Year! I hope this year, that you aspire to make misjudgments—lots of them. When you are aspiring to make misjudgments, then you are trying new things, doing new things, challenging yourself, learning, living and loving. You are accomplishing things with perseverance, especially when it comes to those New Years resolutions. Perseverance is the… Read more

  • Virtue Wednesday: Peace

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    Merry Christmas! When I think about past Christmas’s, I generally will discover that the smallest details offer the utmost radiance of contentment and peace. Peace is the state of serenity or calm that we feel, especially on Christmas morning. Read more

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  • Blessing Bags

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    “To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely.” (Pope Francis, Address during Visit at the Homeless Shelter “Dona Di Maria,” 5/21/13) If you are anything like me, you may always feel obligated to… Read more